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In 2002 thirteen-year-old Christina Long, a Connecticut suburbanite, became the first confirmed murder in the U.S. by an Internet predator. Unfortunately she has not been the last. Fortunately, recent media attention is finally making parents aware of dangers linked to Internet use.

A study performed by National Institute for Missing and Exploited Children concluded that in the past year one in five minors were subjected to sexual solicitation through chat rooms and instant messengers. 5% received aggressive sexual solicitation in the form of phone calls, mail, money, or gifts, as well as being asked to meet. Almost 70% of all solicitations occurred in the home, yet less then one-quarter of minors told a parent. Shockingly, by an average age of just eleven years most minors have been exposed to Internet pornography.

Internet predation is an issue that cannot be ignored. The Long family did not realize their children were in peril until it was too late. We must learn from their loss and take action before more children suffer a similar fate. Amazingly, many responsible parents who wouldnt dream of letting their children cross the street without teaching them to look both ways, or under the supervision of a crossing guard, will let their kids play on the Information Super-Highway without any safeguards!

There are several excellent resources designed to provide education to both parents and children. One of the best is the National Institute for Missing and Exploited Children. Here you will learn how to identify dangers and how to effectively address them. As an example, one of the easiest changes that can be made is moving the family PC to a highly visible area, making it easier to watch for risky behavior. There are other valuable tips, such as how to pick chat room and instant messenger user names that draw less attention from predators and what type of chat rooms to avoid.

The most important thing you must teach your children is that the Internet is not always a safe playground where they can let their guard down. Children often have a false sense of security on the Internet because they believe its anonymous nature will protect them, even from behavior that would make them run in real life. Children must be taught that behavior that would make them uncomfortable in person must not be tolerated online either. Most minors would be afraid of a stranger who starting talking to them with sexual innuendo or talking about their sexual fantasies, but fail to be afraid when they are approached online. In fact many children will even engage in conversations when approached, perhaps because the Internet gives the illusion of personal safety.

Children must be taught that giving out personal information is extremely dangerous. Teach your children that even the smallest piece of information, such as what softball team they are on, is enough for a predator to find them. Also teach them that a stranger online is not always who they say they are. Predators will often masquerade as children themselves to obtain information they can use to identify and find victims. Your child may think they are talking to someone their own age, when in fact they may be talking to someone intent on doing them harm.

In addition to education you must put in place parental controls and monitoring tools to add a second layer of defense. Even the best child will break the rules on occasion, and even the smartest child will fail to identify every dangerous situation. Quality parental control software should allow filtering of web sites and permit monitoring of which sites your children are visiting, allowing you to identify risky behavior before it is too late. Instant messenger controls that permit conversation monitoring, as well as permitting limits on which contacts your kids can have conversations with, are invaluable since predators often use these messengers to meet and entice their victims. Another option that is vital, although often overlooked, is a means of block peer-to-peer file sharing programs. These programs are typically used to download music, but can also serve as a portal for pornography, including the most insidious forms of child pornography. Finally, a quality monitoring tool to that allows you to watch everything your kids do will help identify and address risky behavior. The most typical tool for this is a keystroke logger, which logs every keystroke your child makes. Perhaps the greatest value of installing good parental controls and monitor tools is the positive effect it will have on your childrens behavior. They are less likely to break the rules if they know you are watching.

Educate yourself, educate your children, and invest in the tools to make sure they re safe. Don’t let your family be the next saying they never thought it could happen to them.

One of the easiest ways of starting an online business and earning quick profits is through affiliate marketing. With no website to develop, no product development to achieve, no refunds or customer problems to deal with, this is by far the most effective way of developing your online presence.

If you already have your affiliate products and you’re working at making more sales, an increase in commissions is the obvious goal of everyone. With more and more products hitting the online market, it’s essential to follow some simple yet crucial steps. So what are they?

If you want your affiliate program commissions to take off, literally overnight, these are the steps you need to seriously consider;

1. Do your research and check out the programs you’re thinking about promoting. It’s pretty obvious that you only want to promote a product that will give you the maximum paycheck in the shortest possible time.

The main factors to consider when doing this are obvious when you stop and think about them, but more often than not, are not fully considered before putting your time and money into making your product pay.

Check the commission structure and make sure it pays well. Also, try to find products that match your target audience and are already paying well to other affiliates. You soon know when a program isn’t meeting up to it’s promises – that’s the time to reconsider its worth and move on to the next.

As you’re probably going to be one of many affiliates promoting the same product, especially if it’s a good one, establish your USP – or ‘Unique Selling Position’. Set yourself up as offering that little something extra that makes you stand out above the crowd.Write a short article to give away as an incentive to potential buyers. This gives you both greater credibility and extra drawing power.

Give information that’s not only free, but useful. When you do this, if what you give away for free is good, people naturally expect a great deal more from the bought product. Make recommendations about the product within the report if you can, and try to give just enough information to make people need the actual product.

2. When giving away free reports or ebooks, save and collect, at the very least, the name and email addresses of all those who download your gift. It’s now widely known that very few people make a purchase on their first introduction to a product.

This is where an autoresponder is invaluable as you can create a whole series of follow up messages to send to these prospects to entice them into buying your product. Anywhere between 6 and 10 messages are needed to finally clinch the sale, so automate this process and capitalize on the free report.

Once you have these prospects details, they are yours until the person unsubscribes. This means that you can send them information in the months ahead about other products you’re promoting, long after they’ve bought the original item.

If you develop an ezine, you are in a perfect position to send more valuable, and occasional free, information to these prospects who now value you as a source of knowledge and useful recommendations. You develop a relationship with them and they may stay with you for years to come. They begin to trust you and your recommendations and eventually, are likely to buy from you again.

3. Never underestimate the power of negotiation. Be prepared to haggle with a seller whose goods you wish to promote. Remember that all merchants need affiliates to market and sell their goods and will be more inclined to change their payment structure than potentially loose business if they see you as a good source of income.

Be bold and you could find yourself receiving a greater slice of the pie for all your advertising efforts. Don’t be greedy but be fair and you will be respected for it.

4. Use effective advertising techniques. ‘Pay Per Click’ will give you the most immediate results if you do your research right. Naturally, Google’s Adwords and Overture are the places to start, being leaders in the online PPC field. But, look around and research the smaller players who offer cheaper rates to a smaller audience. These include; ExcelSeek, JumpFind, LookQuick to name just three.

Ezine Top Sponsor and Solo ads can also give you a huge and quick return on your advertising buck with your ad being received by a responsive audience of your chosen market.

And as with any advertising campaigns – track your results. If you don’t know who’s clicking what, you’ll never know which ads are working.

Use these techniques and you’ll soon see an immediate improvement in your affiliate sales. Build on your successes and expansion and growth will follow.

The Internet has recently celebrated its thirty-sixth anniversary. Originally designed around 1969 to allow the exchange of packets of bits between computers, it remained for a long time restricted to the exchange of scientific data between scientists and secure information within governments. Then electronic mail and bulletin boards became increasingly popular among those with access to it. Actually, it was only in the 1990’s that the Internet became a popular means of communication. When in 1993, the US federal government opened up the network to commerce, the creation of the Hypertext Mark-Up Language (HTML) laid the basis for universal accessibility.

Since then the growth has been phenomenal. Different surveys today suggest that fifteen percent of people worldwide are using the Internet, or simply “the Net.” The daily use of the World Wide Web is gaining tremendous popularity among those possessing the adequate tools and means to explore it, and the number of users increases by the hour. In fact, the Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. The invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio, and computer set the stage for this unprecedented integration of capabilities. The Internet is at once a world-wide broadcasting capability, a mechanism for information dissemination, and a medium for collaboration and interaction between individuals and their computers without regard for geographic location.

According to a recent research published by Gulli and Signorini (2005), Google claims to index more than 8 billion pages, MSN Beta claims about 5 billion pages, Yahoo! at least 4 billion and Ask/Teoma more than 2 billion. But estimating the size of the whole Web is quite difficult, due to its dynamic nature. Nevertheless, it is possible to assess the size of the publicly index-able Web. As the two scholars state, the index-able Web is defined as “the part of the Web which is considered for indexing by the major engines.” In their short paper, Gulli and Signorini managed to revise and update the estimated size of the index-able Web to at least 11.5 billion pages as of the end of January 2005. They also estimated the relative size and the overlapping that occurs by the largest Web search engines. Precisely Google was found to be the largest engine, followed by Yahoo!, Ask/Teoma, and MSN Beta. Adopting the methodology proposed in 1997 by two other scholars, Bharat and Broader, but extending the number of queries used for testing from 35,000 in English, to more than 438,141 in 75 different languages, the two researchers remark that an estimate of the size of the web is useful in many situations, such as when compressing, ranking, spidering, indexing and mining the Web.

The Web, as it stands today, has allowed global interpersonal exchange on a scale unprecedented in human history. People separated by vast distances, or even large amounts of time, can use the Web to exchange, or even mutually develop, their most intimate and extensive thoughts, or alternately their most casual attitudes and spirits. Emotional experiences, political ideas, cultural customs, musical idioms, business advice, artwork, photographs, literature, can all be shared and disseminated digitally with less individual investment than ever before in human history.

How To Build Your Own Internet Marketing Company?

The world of the Internet is by all accounts extending significantly of late to such an extent that you may consider setting up your own Internet Marketing Company so you can compete in this field. However, before you begin spending your well deserved cash to set up that Internet Marketing Company you have been dreaming about, it discovers what the guidelines are first.

Initially, you truly can’t get around the way that you need entirely broad mindfulness, learning, and perhaps involvement in the Information Technology angle side for your Internet Marketing Company. Why? Just on the grounds that IT will direct the capacities of your Internet Marketing Company to a critical degree. In the event that you yourself are not an IT individual but rather is enthusiastic about creating an Internet Marketing Company, at that point maybe its time for you to search around for some best cerebrums in IT to employ as experts and staff for your Internet Marketing Company.

The Real Business of an Internet Marketing Company

In the world of advertisement, conventional advertising and promotion approaches are no longer the typical newspaper and TV or radio formats. Promotions of goods and services are now more appealing online especially that now that many have access to the web 24/7. Understanding the benefits and challenges of establishing an influential Internet Marketing Company will help you prosper in this online business. So what do you have to do primarily?

Hire a Smart IT firm

Masterful and business centered IT experts can be your best resources amid the foundation of your Internet Marketing Company. The reason is in this time of cutting edge and all around planned sites, your Internet Marketing Company should be forceful as far as publicizing and advancement. Understand that competition is getting tougher, Internet marketing companies and firm need to be more than just the typical ads and design promotion.

Identify a reliable content writer

You have to have people who know how to write content in your Internet Marketing Company. That means getting people who are skilled in language skills, who know how to work with the language and how to pick topics so that they can create unique and original information for your future clients, and who know when to stop writing about one topic category and switch to others when the client needs these.

If you can get people for your Internet Marketing Company who are strong in both IT and writing, that would be a bonus. Also, an Internet Marketing Company needs people who are skilled in other disciplines. For instance, every business needs an accountant to manage the finances of the Internet Marketing Company. If you yourself know how to do simple accounting, that’s a start but there will come a time in the growth of your Internet Marketing Company when you need someone who is really trained in this discipline.

Marketing resource person

Yes, you have your techies and you have your writers, but Marketing is something that is a specialty in itself. If your Internet Marketing Company team of techies and writers seems to be able to cope, you might want to give them opportunities for continuous learning by sending them to marketing seminars. It may cost you a pretty penny, so try sending one representative at a time who will then educate the rest of the staff of your Internet Marketing Company when he returns with a wealth of knowledge.

An Internet Marketing Company has to be competitive so you really need to spend a lot of time, energy and resources trying to find clients who will hire your services. The field is dominated already by quite a lot of players so you have your work hard for you to at least join the growing bandwagon. This is why your Internet Marketing Company has to function like a close-knit fraternity or sorority of like-minded people who work in conjunction with one another. People are people though so expect some clashes to happen at time, but always make sure you develop a strong Internet Marketing Company culture so that your staff is able to iron out any differences before they escalate into bigger problems.

First off, some points about money. People pay money, a valuable, in exchange for a product or service you provide – another valuable. It’s really barter, with a commodity called money. People buy things which will improve their lives, which gives them some benefit they feel they need. You aren’t really in it for the money, but to provide better service to people so that they can improve their lives. That’s a perfect fit – they want to spend money to improve their lives and you are more than happy to accept money to enable them to do so – with your product and services.

Money is really just an indicator of how much you provide real service to others – and how valuable they think that service is. We’ve gone over how you can increase your income by giving it away, as well.

Now, down to the brass tacks of what to do when and why.

Before we start –

Don’t quit your day job. Rome wasn’t built in a day, God took seven to create this world – so don’t figure you are going to become a millionaire overnight. I’ve heard some talented people got rich in 90 days, but we’ll take the conservative approach here.

Until your Internet activities start bringing income to you, that day job will be providing the seed money for your online business.

Consider all your online activites a second job. This is much better than going to get a second job at some company. Then you are spending 60 hours a week just working for a fixed wage – away from your family and giving a large proportion of it to the government and insurance companies with very little return.

So your online business is your second job. Set it up with a specific workplace and a schedule. Treat it like a business, not a hobby. Show up on time and ready to work – not late and hung over or taking constant breaks for food – or having the TV running so you can “catch the game”. Arrange for your spouse and kids to keep the noise down – or set up your garage so it is comfortable all year round and you can easily work there with no distractions. (Remember, setting this up as an actual business means you can deduct these expenses from your “day job” income tax.)

Work out your finances. See if you can get by on only 80% of what you currently earn in income from your day job. Means you are going to have to set up a budget and find out what you are spending your money on. Or – you could simply have your check deposited directly, 80% going into your checking account and 20% going into your savings account (preferably) or another account.

What you do with that 20% is to set half away for savings – never touch this for anything except, perhaps, a real emergency. The other half (10% of your income after taxes) goes to investment. This is what you are allowed to spend on your online business. But the idea again is that you are investing in your own business – not just blowing it on nice stuff for your home office.

Once you have your home business set up, you are then – an only then – ready to really start in on Internet Marketing, Sales, and Delivery.

C.S. Lewis once said, “ don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose. “ When you let your happiness depend on a person or things you may have, you automatically open yourself up to pain.

It’s okay to have people around who make you happy, in fact you should have people around you who uplift you and are positive. What I’m talking about is depending on getting into relationships or buying million dollar cars in order for you to be happy.

In this generation, being in a relationship has became popularized. So many people are in a relationship and for some, they feel like they have to be in one as well.
When in reality, that’s far from the truth. I think one thing that causes relationships to not work out is not being
ready to be in one.

A person’s insecurities can ruin a relationship fast. That’s why it’s important to be able to truly love yourself before you love someone else. You need to be able to make yourself happy, the person you’re with shouldn’t be your #1 source for happiness.

Loving yourself is a long journey but it’s one that’s worth it. You love yourself by:

knowing your worth

saying no to things you don’t want to do

making yourself a priority

forgiving yourself for the mistakes you’ve made

respecting yourself

It took me a while to accept myself for who I am and learn how to love myself. For years, I let people walk over me and let people stay in my life who didn’t respect me. Now, I know my worth. I don’t chase after people anymore, I’m content with myself. Don’t get me wrong, some days I wake up and don’t like myself but at the end of the day, I’m proud of who I’ve become and for how strong I am.

I wrote this because I see so many guys/ girls beating themselves up for “not being enough” for someone or constantly looking for someone to love. Being in a relationship is amazing, it’s great to have someone by your side. But one day, you’ll find someone who loves everything about you. Someone who will always be there for you no matter what the circumstances may be. Until you find the person who knows what you deserve and truly love you, loves yourself.

As always, I hope you enjoyed reading this and I hope you have a good day/night.

Virtual Reality- Reality which is virtual

It is achieved through a head-mounted display or handheld controller.Basically, it is an artificial simulation of a real-life environment or situation where we can have a real feeling of the environment that is shown in the headset screen or mobile device. It feels like we are entered inside the screen of the device.It immerses the users by making them feel like they are experiencing the situation.

Uses of Virtual Reality

people can have a hands-on practice like flight simulation for aircraft pilots

new bus drivers can be trained in driving skills using Virtual reality simulators. Such a training provides to safely train the driver in avoiding real-life accidents

can tour the whole world just by sitting at one place through Virtual reality application like Google earth VR

future of education resides in Virtual reality where students from around the world can get a real hands-on learning experience

The future developments in field of Virtual reality are having vibration and sensation feedback for example if I traveled to Antarctica using my virtual reality device I can feel the cool temperature of Antarctica using sensation sensors attached to my body